Sunday, April 10, 2011

Update from Chennai: Bougainvillea

A recent visit to Chennai gave us much joy - in our absence the bougainvillea had not just grown by leaps and bounds and taken over the wall but was flowering profusely as well.

I learnt just a couple of days back, from fellow blogger Rohrerbot's post that the colourful parts of the bougainvillea is not the flower after all! These are the bracts - the actual flower is the tiny white thing within.

6 comments:

Nice pictures, especially the macro! It's a brilliant capture!I miss these flowers. In the Philippines, where I came from, they bloom profusely and with different colors. Because they're everywhere, I just took them for granted. Now I miss them.

That is a beautiful plant....I love the color. Our finally are making their VERY slow comeback after our cold winter. I absolutely love this plant....not the thorns though:) Hope you had a nice and relaxing weekend!

Fabulous close-up of the flowers. They do almost go unnoticed, don't they! Watch out your Bougie doesn't become a real monster ... they take off so quickly and they're a horror to trim with those thorns!